Food & Dining
In ancient times, Fukui Prefecture used to supply Kyoto and Nara with food ingredients such as seafood from rich fishing ground and crops harvested thanks to good-quality water and fertile soil, and thus it was known as "Mitsukekuni" i.e. "Province of Food". Today, you may enjoy traditional regional dishes and you could also learn how to make them in cooking workshops. You may also experience Shojin-ryori (Japanese vegetarian dishes) based on vegetables and soy beans to know Zen-style eating habits.

Traditional Fukui food making experience

Fukui-city Local Cuisine Cooking Workshop - Let's Make "Hazushi" and Gojiru with Authentic Recipes from Denga district

Walk & Eat Japanese Sweets to Explorer Awara

Hot Springs & Vegetable Picnic

Visit Awara Hot Spring with a Book of Coupons for Lunch & Sweets

Soba Making Experience - How Wonderful to Enjoy Making and Having Your Homemade Soba -

Konnyaku Making Experience

Mochitsuki Experience

Let's Make a Pizza with Local Food!

Soba Making Experience

Mochitsuki Experience

Nagashi Somen Experience

Miso Brewery Tour: Komego Miso

Miso Making Workshop: Komego Miso - "Miso" Is A Japanese Seasoning Good For Your Health

Workshop for making maki-zushi (sushi roll)

Fukui-city Local Cuisine Cooking Workshop - Let's Make "Hazushi" and Gojiru with Authentic Recipes from Denga district

You'll surely enjoy this workshop held in the town rich in nature. With lovely local "grandmas" teaching you how to make local cuisine, you could feel as if you were visiting your Japanese grannies in the countryside, which will turn out to be an experience never to be available in city life.

Wakasa-Obama Local Cuisine Cooking Workshop

You may participate in the cooking workshop to learn how to cook the authentic cuisine of Obama. The workshop is held in the kitchen studio at Food Culture Museum. You may take your handmade dishes such as Saba (Mackerel) Sushi or Temari Sushi (Sushi Balls) with you as souvenir.

Cooking Workshop - Feast Menu for Formal Festivals in Satoyama

Brief description (in 120 characters): Ohara is a marginal village rich in nature which belongs to Hakusan National Park and is also home to some rare flora and fauna. Dressed in Samue (work clothing of Zen Buddhist monks), you may try making some feast menus for traditional festivals in a old Japanese-style house in the village that will remind you of or give you an idea of what a Satoyama (inhabited area in the foothills) landscape in Japan used to be like in the good old days. As souvenir, you can take Sasa Sushi (sushi wrapped in a leaf) you made and a unique Tenugui (washcloth) with you.

Address

Fukujuso ohara 19-29 Kitadanicho Katsuyama city

Closed day

Access

Access (from Fukui Station): Take Echizen Railway Katsuyama-Eiheiji Line, get off at Katsuyama Station (terminal station of the line), then take a taxi for 20 minutes.

Hours

Estimated time required

180 minutes

Admission fee

4,800 yen

Operating seasons

Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter This workshop is held on an irregular basis. Please check the website for the date available. (The Sasa-plant picking activity is not available from November until April due to deep snow cover and you may try roasting tea leaves instead.)

Available languages

Japanese only (Our staff gives some demonstration along with a video tutorial in English, Chinese, and Korean.)

Credit cards

not Accepted

Parking

10 spaces (3 in winter due to snow) Minibus or smaller cars can pass through the village.

Miso (fermented soybean paste) manufacturer "Marukawamiso" is known to make only organic and one-year-aged miso and offers this workshop where you may make Onigiri (rice balls) with organic brown rice, Miso soup with organic Misomaru (ball-shaped mixture of Miso, Dashi or Japanese soup stock, and some vegetables or other ingredients), and organic Tofu as ingredient for Miso soup. You could also visit their factory.
[Estimated time required] 120 minutes
[Available languages] English

Soba Making Experience & "Oroshi-Soba" and "Yakisaba Sushi" for Lunch

This program is listed among "Fukui Traditional Cooking Experiences", the must-experience activities in Fukui prefecture. You'll surely enjoy making the authentic Soba (buckwheat noodles) by yourself as well as having some Fukui specialties like "Oroshi-Soba" (Soba with grated daikon radish) and "Yaki Saba Sushi" (grilled mackerel sushi). Don't miss the great chance to visit Soba Archives and Factory to know more about Japanese food culture.

Address

7-37 Makarachō, Echizen-shi

Closed day

the New Year days

Access

By Train: 15-minute taxi ride from Takefu Station
By Car: 2-minute drive from Takefu IC

Booking must be made by four days prior to your visit. You or one of your group member must be able to understand Japanese (no on-site interpreter is available), or any instruction may be given as recipe written in foreign language(s).

Sakemasu Collection Rally

You will make the rounds of the four Sake cellars in the city to enjoy made-in-Echizen-Oono Sake and collect parts to make Sakemasu (a square-shaped wooden cup for drinking Sake). At the end of the tour, you'll come back to the Tourist Association and get the last part to complete your original Sakemasu.

You may make and have Soba (buckwheat noodles) made from the top-quality Sobako (buckwheat flour) produced in Fukui prefecture.

Address

4 Chome-305 Onsen, Awara-shi

Closed day

Access

10-minute walk from Echizen Railway Awara-Yunomachi Station

Hours

10:00-22:00

Estimated time required

90 minutes

Admission fee

4000 yen/1 group (of up to 2 adults and 2 children)

Operating seasons

every Saturday, Spring / Summer / Autumn/ Winter

Available languages

Japanese only

Credit cards

not Accepted

Parking

85 free parking spaces

Note

Advanced booking is required (and should be made by phone by three days prior to your visit).
* You should remember to bring an apron, a bandana, and a towel.
* This activity is not recommended if you're allergic to buckwheat.

Walk & Eat Japanese Sweets to Explorer Awara

You will explorer Awara city with a travel guide visiting Sanyakushi - two temples and one shrine dedicated to Yakushi Nyorai, Buddha that cures all illness - and Japanese-style confectionery stores in Awara Hot Springs area to learn about the history as well as values of Awara and the origin of the sweets. (Japanese sweets and coffee will be served.)

Address

1 Chome-1 Onsen, Awara-shi

Closed day

Access

The tour departs from Echizen Railway Awara-Yunomachi Station (meeting place: Awara City kankoukyoukai).

Hot Springs & Vegetable Picnic

Come and enjoy some healthy strawberries at "Okada Strawberry Farm" where they grow them only with organic fertilizers. They're really careful in selecting good soil used for the soil cultivation from which strawberries fully absorb nutrients such as minerals. Don't miss this opportunity to have as many ripe strawberries as you want for 30 minutes! If this strawberry-picking has whetted your appetite, try some specially-made sweets at "Tajima Farm", then head to Awara Hot Spring inn "Hasegawa" to fully appreciate hot springs and relaxing teatime at its lounge with a wood-burning stove.

Visit Awara Hot Spring with a Book of Coupons for Lunch & Sweets

Use the coupons to make your stay at Awara a great value. The book of vouchers will include one for lunch, café, or souvenir, one for Japanese or non-Japanese sweets, and three special offers (you'll get 10% off at some stores, 30%-off entrance fee at Saintpia Awara where you can try a free workshop to make an Onsen Tamago (a slow cooked egg in the water of hot spring).

Address

1 Chome-1 Onsen, Awara-shi

Closed day

Access

The coupon shop is located at Echizen Railway Awara-Yunomachi Station.

Hours

8:30-17:15

Estimated time required

Admission fee

1,000 yen (for a book of 5 coupons)

Operating seasons

Autumn / Winter (The coupons are valid from October to March next year.)

Soba Making Experience - How Wonderful to Enjoy Making and Having Your Homemade Soba -

Making soba is one of the most traditional and authentic cooking workshops available in Fukui prefecture. This workshop has a good reputation for its program full of joy to make and have soba by yourself. The instructions are given using video tutorials which allow beginners as well as young children to enjoy cooking. Don't miss the great chance to visit Soba Archives and Factory to know more about Japanese food culture.

Address

7-37 Makarachō, Echizen-shi

Closed day

the New Year days

Access

By Train: 15-minute taxi ride from Takefu Station
By Car: 2-minute drive from Takefu IC

Konnyaku Making Experience

You will make a chewy Konnyaku from Konnyaku yams with an authentic recipe that has been passed down through generations in Uomi district, Ikeda-cho. You may enjoy fresh Konnyaku on the spot or you could take it with you as souvenir.

Mochitsuki Experience

You can try making Mochi (rice cake) with Kine (a wooden mallet) and Usu (a granite mortar) and enjoy it as Mame-Mochi (mochi with beans), Kusa-Mochi (mochi mixed with mug wort), or in other way of your choice.

Mochitsuki Experience

You can try making Mochi (rice cake) with Kine (a wooden mallet) and Usu (a granite mortar) and enjoy it as Mame-Mochi (mochi with beans), Kusa-Mochi (mochi mixed with mug wort), or in other way of your choice.

Miso Brewery Tour: Komego Miso

Miso is a traditional basic seasoning of Japanese food. You can learn how to make miso through the brewery tour. We were founded in 1831 so you could feel the history we have made. You also can see the specialthat provide for Eihei-ji Temple, the main temple of Soto sect (of Zen Buddisum).If you want to know Japanese food culture, please come to Misoraku produced by Komego Miso!

Address

2-Chome 25-1, Haruyama, Fukui-shi

Closed day

Access

10-minute walking from JR Fukui Station
3-minute walking from Fukui Railway Jin-ai Girl's High School Station

Hours

9:00-18:00

Estimated time required

About 45 minutes

Admission fee

Free

Operating seasons

Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter

Available languages

English

Credit cards

Parking

Available

Note

Advanced booking is required
If you need English guide, please tell it when booking.

Miso Making Workshop: Komego Miso - "Miso" Is A Japanese Seasoning Good For Your Health

Miso Soup is an iconic food of Japanese. Miso has been essential seaosoning for Japanese food and has supported the health. We have been only miso brewery permitted to provide miso to Eihei-ji Temple, the main temple of Soto sect (of Zen Buddisum). Monk in Eihei-ji Temple have our miso. Possibly you can feel the mind of "Zen" when you have it. You can participate miso making workshop. You also can take it home (about 1.8kg) and ferment it or get 500 grams of miso had been fermented in our brewery.

Address

2-Chome 25-1, Haruyama, Fukui-shi

Closed day

Access

10-minute walking from JR Fukui Station
3-minute walking from Fukui Railway Jin-ai Girl's High School Station

Hours

Estimated time required

About 90 minutes

Admission fee

1600yen+tax

Operating seasons

Spring / Autumn / Winter

Available languages

English

Credit cards

Accepted

Parking

Available

Note

Advanced booking is required
If you need English guide, please tell it when booking.